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1) Cages
Author
Publisher
Cobblehill Books/Dutton
Pub. Date
c1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Description
After losing an acting role and fighting with her alcoholic stepfather, Kit is arrested for shoplifting and ordered to work, as part of her sentence, at an animal shelter.
3) Hate list
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Valerie, whose boyfriend Nick committed a school shooting at the end of their junior year, struggles to cope with integrating herself back into high school life, unsure herself whether she was a hero or a villain.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Paperbacks for Children
Pub. Date
1999
Description
Teenage Holland and her younger sister Geneva, having always lived under the shadow of siblings who died before they were born, struggle to establish separate identities and escape from the oppressive weight of their parents' continuing grief.
6) Stupid fast
Author
Formats
Description
Just before his sixteenth birthday, Felton Reinstein has a sudden growth spurt that turns him from a small, jumpy, picked-on boy with the nickname of "Squirrel Nut" to a powerful athlete, leading to new friends, his first love, and the courage to confront his family's past and current problems.
8) Parrotfish
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Grady, a transgendered high school student, yearns for acceptance by his classmates and family as he struggles to adjust to his new identity as a male.
9) Faerie wars
Author
Series
Publisher
Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers
Pub. Date
2004, 2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Troubled by family problems, Henry finds his life taking a whole new dimension when he and his friend, old Mr. Fogarty, become involved with Prince Pyrgus Malvae who has been sent from the faerie world in order to escape the treacherous Faeries of the Night.
12) Revolution
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 17
Formats
Description
An angry, grieving seventeen-year-old musician facing expulsion from her prestigious Brooklyn private school travels to Paris to complete a school assignment and uncovers a diary written during the French revolution by a young actress attempting to help a tortured, imprisoned little boy--Louis Charles, the lost king of France.
13) Awake at dawn
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 15
Description
Having settled in at Shadow Falls Camp, a training ground for vampires, werewolves, and other supernatural beings, sixteen-year-old Kylie Galen is eager to discover what her abilities might be, but an interfering ghost and a rogue vampire on a murdering rampage get in the way of her search.
Author
Series
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Description
In 1938, twelve-year-old William has already decided to leave home when his younger sister informs him that she and their brother and sister are going too, and right away, but complications arise when an acquaintance decides to "help" them.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Rising sophomore Travis and his best friend, Creature, spend a summer in a Eugene, Oregon, trailer park dealing with cancer, basketball, first love, addiction, gang violence, and a reptilian infestation.
Author
Series
Sisters in time volume 1893
Publisher
Barbour Pub
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
The year is 1893, and twelve-year-old Emily Allerton visits the World's fair in Chicago. She loves the new inventions, but then returns home to an economic recession. Emily and her cousin, Ted, decide to help those who have become homeless and hungry.
20) Black box
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Description
When her sixteen-year-old sister is hospitalized for depression and her parents want to keep it a secret, fourteen-year-old Elena tries to cope with her own anxiety and feelings of guilt that she is determined to conceal from outsiders.
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